WD3 Wargames Directory 3.4

Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 10:24 pm

by Leon Pendraken

It's taken us some time to start getting the TB-Line ranges back into production, mainly due to all of the production moulds needing to be replaced. We're making progress now and the first to appear is the Middle Age Europe range!

This lot consists of just 3 codes but they're very nice sculpts and quite useful items as well, covering knights on foot, armed peasants and peasant archers. The figures match up very well to our own, with only 0.5mm difference in the height and a slightly slimmer style to the sculpts. We've not made any changes to the sculpts but they have been cleaned up for the new moulds and are much crisper castings.

Next up in the TB Line ranges will be the Middle Ages Eastern Europe set, which we should have ready in the next fortnight hopefully.

Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:57 pm

by Leon Pendraken

While we're busily moulding up new ranges, Tony Hughes has been working hard on some new flagsheets for our recent 1849-1866 Italian range! There's not a great deal of info available for some of these but Tony's done a lot of work to make sure that these are as accurate as possible.

Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:58 pm

by Leon Pendraken

We've got the next set of TB Line moulds completed so the Eastern European codes are now available again!

This range has 7 codes covering mounted command, cavalry and infantry with a nice mix of sculpts in each. We've also come across some extra master sculpts while making these new moulds, so both the 'Heavy knights with lance' and 'Armed peasants' have got an extra pose which might not have been available previously. The horses and riders are separate castings, usually rider + horse, but the light cavalry have got the legs moulded onto the horse with separate upper torso castings.

As with the previous release, these figures match up very well to our own. We've not made any changes to the sculpts but they have been cleaned up for the new moulds and are much crisper castings.

Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 11:17 pm

by Leon Pendraken

This next release from RedVectors is a lovely model of Escomb Church in County Durham. The real church is one of the oldest Anglo Saxon churches in England and one of only three complete examples still standing. The model doesn't have to be confined to the land of the Prince Bishops though and would sit happily on the table for all kinds of games.

Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

We've got a quick couple of releases ready before we head off to the Fiasco show this weekend, with the M44 and M52 self-propelled howitzers ready and on the website!

These two are both conversions of the US Walker Bulldog chassis, the first with a 155mm howitzer and used by the US, Britain, Italy, Belgium, Greece and Turkey. The second has a 105mm howitzer was used by both the US and Turkey (under the M52T designation).

Next up will be the Dutch-Belgians for the Napoleonic fans, we should have those ready to release in the next fortnight.

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Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2018 2:36 pm

by Leon Pendraken

We've got some more additions to our Modern vehicles range with the Humber Pig and ZSU-57-2 released and ready to buy!

The Humber Pig was a lightly armoured truck used by the British army from the 1950's through to the early 1990's. With around 1700 produced, this vehicle is probably best known for its usage in Northern Ireland in the 1970's. There were also some quite fun conversions, including the Holy Pig (rooftop hatch with perspex screen), Squirt Pig (water cannon), Flying Pig (extending riot screens) and Kremlin Pig (wire screens for RPG protection)!

The ZSU-57-2 was a self-propelled anti-air gun built on a modified T-54 chassis. Developed in the mid-1950's and still in use today, over 2000 of these were produced and saw action in Vietnam, Yom Kippur, Yugoslavia and the Gulf War. They were still in use during the recent Syrian Civil War as well.

Next up is those Napoleonic Dutch-Belgians, should be ready before we head off to Warfare!

Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:44 pm

by Leon Pendraken

After they were launched at the Battleground show a fortnight ago, we've now added these ECW battle packs to the website as well. Covering the 3 ECW battles that took place here in the north-east of England, each pack contains a representation of the forces present at each engagement, at a ratio of roughly 1:10.

In August 1642, King Charles I declared war against his Parliament. The North, led by William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, generally supported the King. Cavendish’s 6-8,000 strong Royalist northern army marched south from Newcastle to relieve the Parliamentarian threat to Royalist York. En route it defeated a small Parliamentarian force at Piercebridge and then went on to challenge Parliamentarian forces led by the Fairfaxes in the west (Leeds/Bradford area) and the Hothams (Hull) and Cholmleys (Scarborough) in the East. The struggle for control of the bridge crossings of the River Tees, in order to move Royalist supplies of munitions from the Continent down to York and beyond, led to the engagements at Guisborough and Yarm.

Packs cover:-The Battle of Piercebridge (1 December 1642)The Battle of Guisborough (16 January 1643)The Battle of Yarm (1 February 1643)

Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2018 7:29 pm

by Leon Pendraken

We've got more new releases for the Napoleonic gamers next, with the Dutch Belgians now available!

After the French conquest of the Netherlands in the late 18th century, the Kingdom of Holland had fought alongside the French until 1810, when Napoleon integrated the Netherlands into France and absorbed the army into his own Grande Armee. In 1813 however, an uprising against Napoleonic rule brought about both a new Kingdom of the United Netherlands and an independent Dutch army, which went on to serve as part of the allied forces during the 100 Days War, culminating at Waterloo.

Our range covers this later period with figures in both Dutch and Belgian style uniforms for both infantry and cavalry.

Re: Pendraken's 2018 Releases!

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2018 10:23 pm

by Leon Pendraken

Our final release of 2018 adds a French five to the Modern Vehicles range with the addition of the AMX-VCI APC and the Panhard EBR armoured car.

The AMX-VCI was an APC variant of the AMX-13 chassis, with around 3000 produced in a number of variants. We've got the three most useful types: - the VTT with a standard turret mounted machine gun.- the 12.7, fitted with a 50 calibre HMG.- the M-56, fitted with a 20mm cannon.

As well as France, these were extensively used by both Belgium and the Netherlands and are still in active service in various other countries.

The Panhard EBR was an 8-wheeled armoured car which was originally designed before WWII but didn't start production until the early 1950's. Both the FL-10 and FL-11 variants had 75mm turrets, with the latter being sourced from the AMX-13 tank. Over 1000 of these were produced in total, with one of them carrying the coffin of Charles de Gaulle at his state funeral.